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The research and genius that is put into this work is mind-boggling, especially coming from a 'foreigner'. This author is no foreigner to India or South Asia. He has studied the subject in detail more than most Asians.
Each chapter has the scope of being expanded to another book. The author acknowledges the unlimited scope of the issues raised.
The issues discussed are too numerous to mention and highly analytical in nature. Of the many discussions, the processes the author has chosen to tackle the definition of vernaculars and 'vernacularization' are very interesting. The reader may find them pleasing and intermittently amusing. The attempt and effort are painstaking, and the product (the many chapters and the whole book) is phenomenal. The author may have been more influenced by the Kannada culture than any other, because of his association with scholars from the Karnataka.
Many Indians may not welcome the many brave and candid statements such as Mahabharata is political, to name just one.
The endeavour has paid off and the result is brilliant.